Petraeus Affair Widens: Who's Who & What's What? Here's A Guide

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30. Gotcha (HuffPo excerpt inside)

So the first time Broadwell met Petreaus was to do this book? See, I'm clueless still about a lot of the details.

If the connection came as a result of doing this book, you are sooooooo right. Where the idea for the book begin in the first place, and who nurtured it along?

The publisher is Penguin Press.

Actually, here's more info:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/vernon-loeb-washington-post-petraeus-biography_n_2115391.html

Loeb did not respond to a request from The Huffington Post on working with Broadwell, but spoke favorably in January about his co-author's reporting skills and how the two teamed up on a biography that grew out of her Harvard University dissertation.

In June 2010, when President Barack Obama tapped him to take charge in Afghanistan for what would become Petraeus' final command, Broadwell knew the time was right to parlay her dissertation into a biography.

Soon, she had an agent and a contract from Penguin Press. To help organize and write the book, she teamed with The Washington Post's Vernon Loeb. Broadwell proved to be an "absolutely intrepid" reporter, Loeb says, dictating from airports, filling up his email inbox and delivering "this fire hose of information."

Loeb suspects the media's interest in their book stems at least a bit from Broadwell herself. It's audacious, he says, "that she even attempted this. Here she has two young kids, a husband who's a doctor, and yet ... she's writing a book of this magnitude and hardly breaking a sweat."